“They said if you want to wear a fast suit when you’re taking the test you have to wear the little Speedos that we issue,” Lester told 1010 WINS’ Mona Rivera. “I said, ‘No, I’m not going to do that. I’m going to wear my jammers.'”

“I won’t wear a Speedo — no more than I would walk around in my underwear. And I’m not going to walk around in my underwear,” Lester told CBS 2’s Katie Fehlinger.

“I show up, they say, ‘We won’t let you take the test,'” Lester said. “So that was the end of my lifeguarding.”

But he had other options.

“Everybody has to wear state-issued gear, so you either have to wear the Speedo or you could wear board shorts or anything that’s state issued to make it fair for everybody,” Jones Beach lifeguard Rob Hildebrand said.

In fact, all of the guards donned the looser trunks. Still, Lester wanted something form fitting so he’d have a faster time on his speed test. However, the state flat out said no to the jammers. So Lester, who is a bankruptcy lawyer by day, filed an age discrimination suit against the state. He believes older lifeguards were being weeded out. He estimated 80 percent of them are over 40.

“All of a sudden they’re banning the swimsuits that the older lifeguards were using,” Lester said.

He said there should be a law against anyone over 50 wearing the skimpy, form-hugging swimwear.